REAL Stories Of Animals Found Inside Humans

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[@tayzonday]

Thank you! I sometimes wake-up being accused of having an animal in me and clearly I should look into it 🤔

[@AliM-kl5rp]

Firts

[@sl3epystarz]

AYY CHOCOLATE RAIN MAN !! YOURE THE BEST

[@AliM-kl5rp]

First*

[@AliM-kl5rp]

Shouldn’t this have more likes?

[@quick_k]

legend

[@Aftershk]

As the caption stated, demodex are mites, not spiders. Both are arachnids, but mites and spiders are completely separate orders, with spiders being classified under the order Araneae, and mites under the orders Acariformes and Parasitiformes. This channel is designed to educate, so there's some education for everyone who reads this comment.

[@tmmawesome]

Do the mites get washed off when we take baths or wash out faces? (Genuinely curious)

[@kevinmadcock8999]

​@tmmawesome not the ones around the hair follicles usually

[@Aftershk]

@@tmmawesome Likely some are, but they're microscopic, and anchor themselves inside the hair follicles, only commonly coming out during darkness (so unless you're showering in the dark, if you have demodex, they're probably anchored inside your hair follicles during bathing). They're so miniscule and hard to track, it's difficult for studies to determine how many a human is carrying overall in the first place, not to mention how many less they are possibly carrying after bathing, since it's not easy to check every hair follicle of a living, moving human for microscopic animals. 😅

[@QuietChaos1996]

No matter what, I despise anything crawling on me.

[@hellsxbells]

Now I'm curious. I have alopecia, so no hair or hair follicles. Do I still have these on me? Or do they just fall off because they have nowhere to "anchor"? Is this why I get patches of dermatitis? 🤔

[@SocialMediaFBIAgent]

I just got certified in CPR. If you see this, like it. I want Dr. Mike to know that he's making a difference.

[@user-jh6bz1xf4w]

HAVE YOU SEEN THE lepidodendron tree? HOPEFULLY not.IF YOU HAVE THEN YOU HAVE RIPPED INTO THE FABRIC OF TIME.

[@KrypticKoder404]

@@user-jh6bz1xf4womg not this again

[@MisadventureMisty]

I can handle these stories no problem UNTIL the spider in the ear. I have a tremendous phobia of getting a bug stuck in my ear. I literally ask my family to check my ears every once in a while because I’m so paranoid about it.

[@stephaniekershner4625]

I once had my daughter come up to me after in the woods while telling me she pulled out a water spider out of her ear 😅 😮

[@red_phoenix0570]

if it makes you feel any better, you would absolutely know if any bug got into your ear. even though you can't hear them move normally, when in your ear canal you can hear a bug moving around. so unless you suddenly start hearing very loud buzzing or scratching in one ear, you're fine!

[@vaiapatta8313]

A doctor I went to told me a real story that sounds like an episode of House MD. He had been treating a couple of patients for parasites, and the parasites kept making a comeback. He was perplexed for some time, until he had a sudden epiphany in the middle of the night. He asked one patient to drive him to their home. Sure enough, there were a lot of apartments around a yard where all the neighbourhood children would play in the dirt. Kids got the parasites from the dirt, and they were passing them to and fro, giving the infection to each other and to their families. The doctor gathered ALL the residents and gave them all the treatment. That finally did it.

[@lucassantilli]

It honestly sounds like you asked Chat GPT to write a House MD synopsis

[@dominikbeitat4450]

@@lucassantilli Key difference being the doctor actually asking to visit, instead of just breaking & entering.

[@fruitymcfruitcake9674]

Your story is a tad bit too unbelievable, friend. How is it that several people from this set of apartments were seeing that one doctor? How did he convince a patient to drive him to their home? Did he not ask such standard questions as "Do you have young children and do they play in dirt regularly?" Why did he care? And, most importantly, how on Earth did he get several apartment complexes worth of people to comply with treatment when not everyone in any apartment would have the money for such a thing or be symptomatic enough to want to spend money on it? And how did he clear the parasites from the environment these people were in?

[@vaiapatta8313]

@@fruitymcfruitcake9674 dude, the treatment costs like 0.33 euros per person. Also, the doctor didn't need to clear the parasites from the environment, that wasn't his job, keeping things clean was someone else's responsibility, and most of all it was the parents' responsibility to not let their kids play at that spot. Why did he care? I don't know, because he's a decent person? How did he "convince" the patient? He just asked nicely? Did he not ask if the kids played in the dirt - why yes, I assume he did. The mystery was how the parasite kept coming back even when these children didn't go in the dirt; the answer was, they were getting it from the other kids. But it is indeed a coincidence that more than one family from that neighbourhood ended up seeing the same doctor for this. We're talking about a city of a million people, and there are many doctors of each specialty available.

[@Whammytap]

Sounds like the famous story of the cholera well.

[@maradedrick1519]

This is one of my worst fears. Watching monsters inside me gives me nightmares and makes me extremely paranoid

[@hemlockwaterdropwortchanne3896]

sorry, I'm sure that can be very stressful. it seems like watching this video might trigger it though.

[@saltiestsiren]

Then why are you watching the video 😭 Don't put yourself through unnecessary torture lol!

[@HarperEh]

@@saltiestsirenit’s torture watching this but it’s interesting but also making me creeped out

[@superlambda4144]

@@saltiestsiren It is stressful to watch this video, but it is what we have to face to get the knowledge. We watch because we fear it, and the more knowledge about it we learn, the easier can we alleviate the fear and know how to deal with these situations. That's how human beings grow and make our lives better.

[@allabout_mee.]

Me too 😢

[@chudawonn]

I am brazilian and I live in the Amazon! Candirus are usually found inside a lot of fish, my grandad used to urinate in a bottle (yea yikes) and throw in the fish inside the boat and a bunch of them would came out also there was a woman in my neighborhood who got one inside of her after entering the river in her period, although is not scientifically proved I think they are attracted by strong smells 😂

[@potato_rat_0514]

In my 8th grade (my curent grade) medical deceive class me and a classmate got paired up to diegnose a (fake)37yo female person with vision issues and constent bumping into things on her left side, so me and my classmate asked for the brain scan and quickly diagnosed her with a tumor in the primary visual cortex and so the next day we did(preserved sheep) brain surgery and removed the tumor. IT WAS REALY REALY FUN ❤❤

[@cswrye]

I occasionally hear people talk about having two wolves inside of them. This concerns me because I don't think that humans are supposed to have any wolves inside of them.

[@jamielondon6436]

It's fine if it's two, because they can keep each other company.

[@mongoose8987]

As an entomology graduate student, I just want to say that the spider is not poisonous (gives issue by touching it) but rather venomous (could inject venom from its fangs/a stinger). This was a very interesting video!

[@CreedBrattonTheOffice]

This is what I was about to say. You'd think Doctor Mike would know the difference. Pretty basic knowledge, especially for someone so educated.

[@Cattrix999]

Thank you! I was all prepared to type and decided to check the comments. Me, a mother to Tarantulas. ❤

[@megem2908]

​@CreedBrattonTheOffice being educated in one thing doesn't mean you're educated in everything

[@CreedBrattonTheOffice]

@@megem2908 It's common knowledge. I don't have any College/University degrees yet I know it. Even if he didn't know, should've picked it up in the research he prides himself on.

[@SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish.]

I knew someone would have already beat me to this comment…

[@EntityBSS]

Half my school and I would love to see your reactions to volleyball injuries. We're all huge fans of your content. Keep up the great work!

[@shreyashshivadikar9800]

Kudos to your team, especially Dr Mike , for keeping a straight face while prompting these fearful stories. As a viewer, i would say to put a VIEWERS DESCRETION title before such videos. Anyway Good job everyone :) Love from India

[@nicolestewart2843]

I agree 💯% that trigger warnings are so important but for this video I feel the title of the video is warning enough. It becomes overkill to endlessly warn about potential triggers when the subject of the video is completely clear based on the title.

[@rayactions]

That was a heart-worm-ing story 🫢😶‍🌫️

[@IRLtwigstan]

I love this joke!

[@MousesHouses]

Underrated

[@donaldjones9830]

Terrible pun, but still funny

[@msk-qp6fn]

😂

[@lindsaymonteer3862]

How punny…

[@LadyTsunade777]

For the botfly one: I very clearly remember watching some show on either Discovery Channel or Animal Planet at some point as a kid, and they had a very similar story. This one guy (was from either US or UK) decided to go to the Amazon and explore alone, but after several days' trek he started developing large swollen bumps along his arms and legs that were painful to the touch. They got so painful to the point that he could barely move. One evening, as he was lying on his sleeping bag moaning in pain, a random tribal native man happened across him, recognized the symptoms, and smeared thick tree sap on all of the bumps to do the same - suffocate the larvae and force them to the surface. Then the tribal guy went along and squeezed all the bumps to remove all the larvae, and after a final check to make sure there were none left, just went on his way without so much as a word. (with appropriate TV re-enactment shots showing large larvae-like things flying across a dark empty screen with accompanying squirts of fluid) The exploring guy decided that was the end of his adventure, and immediately headed back home. So as soon as you mentioned botflies and petroleum jelly, I knew where the story was going, just because I remember that one episode of that random show from when I was a kid.

[@iagreewithyou3478]

There's a recent case. It's actually here in KZbin shorts. A family channel. It's a foreign family who travelled from South America (?) and vacationed in the Philippines. The larvae was on the top of his head. The poor wife had to pull the thing off. Very stretchy too. They brought a "hitchhiker" from SA and was vacationing with them for a week haha

[@KiboSanti]

There was a show called "Monsters Inside Me" that went into detail about a lot of cases like these! I loved that show, it was horrifying lol

[@evanmaldonado9799]

@@KiboSantiI grew up on that show, it’s freaky af yet it made me interested in learning about parasites and diseases.

[@curlytop3194]

Yo! I vaguely remember watching the same special as a little kid. No idea which show it was.

[@godrickstockwell1505]

I saw a story kind of like that with a man from somewhere in the UK. If I remember right he was participating in a program like Doctors Without Borders and was somewhere helping folks dealing with health issues. Like your guy he developed a bump and the other symptoms, unlike your guy he got a diagnosis of botfly eggs pretty quick. Where it gets weird is this guy decided the botfly inside him was funny and kept it in, it was even in him when he flew back home. He named it, Jerry I think, and joked about "eating for two" with friends. Once the larvae hatched and started scraping its way out the fun wore off and pain set in so he had a local doctor remove it.

[@dianathompson4004]

I must say I have enormous respect for you (Dr Obaz) considering the manners in which I received my complete treatment for Hpv after taking your medication. God bless you for coming through for me Doc!!!!!

[@beereal5107]

Wow ! Thank you Dr Mike for my future nightmares that this video inspired, lol. Keep up the good work, you have created an awesome, entertaining and educational channel, I am very happy that I have found and subscribed to it !

[@KxNOxUTA]

Also burping up fish and frogs is still animal cruelty. We had someone do the fish thing on a superstar show here in Germany and ppl were actually not amused about it (regardless of the fascination). There was media backlash and the contestant promised not to use animals again.

[@Articilla]

drake was in the background of the dude doing it

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I gotta admit. Parasites are fascinating but in a morbid curiosity kind of way. It's just insane how life has found the weirdest ways to evolve and live out their life cycle.

[@aragnophy]

In some way, humans are parasite of Earth or Nature. Agent Smith has some valid points about this ;)

[@icarusbinns3156]

Apparently, the Amazonian catfish is attracted not by the urine itself, but by the electrical charge (?) in it. Hypothesis is that a similar charge is found in the gills of larger fish that the catfish likes to latch onto. But that’s just a guess!

[@stonechops]

This literally is the first video of Mike’s that made me ill from the beginning, through the middle to the (finally!!) end. Thanks Mike. 😮

[@jennifercaldwell-jeans4569]

Just a quick clarification as I see the term "poisonous" misused quite commonly. Spiders are VENOMOUS. Not poisonous. Venom is injected, whether through fangs, spines or nematocysts (like from jellyfish tentacles.) Poison can be from contact or ingestion. I know this seems nit-picky but I know that Dr. Mike really strives for accuracy so I hope my correction is taken in the good spirits in which it is given.

[@nehemiahhein8659]

I was about to comment that as well... haha I'm constantly explaining this to people, partly because I love spiders. lol

[@infpdreams]

Are there any known species of spiders that are poisonous, too, to other organisms?

[@jennifercaldwell-jeans4569]

@@infpdreams No, as of today there are no spiders known to be poisonous when ingested. I've seen some pest control sites state the opposite but I'll take my advice from science not a pest control company :P In truth, of all the species that have venom glands (40,000+/-) only around 30 or less are harmful to humans.

[@infpdreams]

@@jennifercaldwell-jeans4569 Thank you so much for answering! I'm a former arachnophobe who now loves arachnids, to the point where, when I encounter them, I tend to talk to them as if they're adorable little puppies. Agreed about not trusting pest control sites instead of scientific websites.

[@anti_sse]

One of our spiders can kill you if they bite you 💀 specially if you develop a deadly anaphilaxis by any venom injected😵‍💫the worse part is that spider type favoritism is living inside houses

[@aEMMinA]

Doctor Mike: “North American spider deaths are practically unheard of.” Australia: “Hold my beer.”

[@TheSucram729]

I know it’s a joke but here in Australia no one has died of a spider bite since 1979 because of the creation of anti venoms

[@LeaHartmann]

@sophiebophieboo 😂😂😂

[@extrastuff9463]

@@TheSucram729 If one does get bitten by a spider how quickly does it have to be administered? If it's within a couple of hours I do stil see possibilities for it to happen unnoticed thus not knowing the cause of the problem develop too long or just to be too far away from timely medical care. But it's good to know just in case I ever do end up visiting the place, I actually don't mind spiders here at home. I often try to trap the ones that get in the way to release them outside. Would keep my distance a bit more in a place with strange spider species around, some of which can be dangerous presumably only when provoked.

[@CMarie-dv6je]

Hmmm...I have to carry an EpiPen because I'm HIGHLY ALLERGIC to ALL spider bites...

[@user-ew7kp5lo5r]

Utan😂

[@Thegielthatloveseoblox]

7:24 the small spider is so cute 🥹

[@diannesquyres4493]

No such thing as a cute spider !

[@chocolatnoir1108]

haha yes especially with those eyes😂🥹

[@amanixxii9652]

Doctor mike is the best ❤

[@sharpblue]

Doctor Mike never fails to make us feel sick while watching his videos 🔥🔥🔥

[@TigerLily12345]

😂 😅 That's true for this video 😬

[@dinazwitscher9872]

Lol

[@extrachromosome1z4]

Dont be shocked. Zoophiling is actually legal here in Spain. Its disgusting.

[@resultofeatingborax]

@@extrachromosome1z4that’s horrible :(

[@mirandada6457]

I don't because of his smile

[@nicholasburchett9408]

I’m my biology class at NSU in Florida, my professor was talking about brain eating amoeba and said only one person has ever survived this amoeba and it was somewhere in Orlando. A girl in my class raised her hand and said, “That was my brother.”

[@brenda5511]

😳

[@jessicacallaghan8082]

Florida man survives deadly parasite

[@necroavirus]

Yooo can someone eradicate those idiots please? They're mean to me and say zombies are weak 😢

[@IceeALatte]

*Gasp* 😳

[@fruitymcfruitcake9674]

@@necroavirus Not possible; they're a naturally occurring amoeba that exist, like, everywhere. Their main food source is actually bacteria, which also means if you have bacteria in your brain, they'll eat that first, then only start eating you when they run out of food. I doubt it, but wouldn't it be funny if they ended up effectively treating something extremely difficult to cure like toxoplasmosis? Such research would be too unethical to get approved for human or even animal testing, of course.

[@shlokt6300]

Great video, but a small correction. The Demodex is not a spider, its a mite. Both are arachnids but these mites belong to order Trombidiformes while spiders belong to order Araneae

[@jellyfishfingernail]

8:57 that jumping spider is so cute tho

[@KBRoller]

Slight correction: demodex are mites, not spiders. Both are arachnids, but different taxonomic orders.

[@haveaniceday234]

My grandfather had a moth living in his ear for weeks, possibly a few months 🤣 he said he could hear it and feel it fluttering around but thought it was just something that happens when you're old 😂😂

[@nollypolly]

I've had that happen twice lol. Both times I grabbed my tweezers and pulled them out. You don't even have to go in very far as there's not much room in there anyway lol. Such a weird sound! The first time I was asleep and it was like bombs were going off! 😂

[@pistachoo.]

@@nollypolly eeeeeeeeww!!!!

[@Just_a_random_birb]

@@nollypolly OH GOD. GO TO DOCTOR

[@heroinfathr]

how does this happen?!?? this is terrifying

[@bilalnadeem9164]

I literally punched myself when he said there are spiders crawling on your face 😭😭

[@_Alliee]

My mom said I could go to your next Tour!Im so happy to meet you! Now I’m going to be a family medicine doctor because of you!

[@DontKnowTrin]

aww🥹

[@LofiKid10]

Can we all acknowledge the joy we feel when we see Mike's face?❤️

[@yobeatz]

😊.

[@MusicProducerVlog]

😀.

[@mrcheese3092]

no

[@Shinaxite]

No

[@BorisKotkov]

🤨🤨

[@Jadinass]

If you ever read something like the squid story again remember: not only is it difficult anatomically for an egg and a sperm cell from 2 different species to meet, there is also reproductive isolation on the molecular level, meaning that a sperm cell would not be able to penetrate the egg cell of another species and even if you somehow manage to do that (by injecting it with a needle or something) the egg cell would not be able to successfully pair chromosomes and develop further. This seems obvious and in fact is absolutely necessary for the evolution of different species but working out the exact details is not always trivial and sometimes you really have to think about why something is the way it is.

[@Katie2986]

What about Ligers and Tions? Or Mules?

[@Jadinass]

@@Katie2986 They are related enough to produce viable offspring, they aren't genetically so stratified that the fertilization would fail on a molecular level. However Hybrid animals famously have significant health complications and a high rate of infertility. The reason animals who could produce viable hybrids don't normally do so in nature are not on the molecular level but still very effective to prevent hybrid breeding, namely behavior, environmental niche and anatomy.

[@Katie2986]

@@Jadinass I knew they were generally sterile with other health complications. What caught my interest is that they are different species to each other

[@fruitymcfruitcake9674]

@@Katie2986 The definition of "different species" actually relies on reproduction; if two creatures can create viable *fertile* offspring, they are the same species. There are areas where two species are so close to each other genetically that they can reproduce, but in these cases the genes are a very poor match, creating offspring that can barely survive, much less continue themselves. It's like combining two programs - each program can do a lot of things, and if they're similar enough and you combine them, they'll make another program, but if they're not similar enough they'll make a program with niche uses that barely works, and if they're any less similar, it'll just crash, sometimes so catastrophically it destroys the machine it's being run on. Genetics are really really complicated coding. That's why there are protections.

[@alphabeta402]

@@Jadinasswouldn’t the gametes need the same amount of haploids?

[@Kamoenani]

"Poor Richard Gere has been the BUTT of an unsubstantiated rumour..." - well played hahaha

[@annikachristensen4323]

Great video! Just a little correction... Brown recluse spiders are venomous, not poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it was venomous. If you bite it and you die, it was poisonous :)

[@kenzielover-]

OHH I thought poisononous and venomous was the same help- 😭

[@CarrieWhitaker]

As someone with high level arachnophobia, I'm suddenly VERY glad I sleep with headphones on/earbuds in my ears at night. Sometimes to listen to sleep sounds app, sometimes to have a video playing until I can sleep, but always to keep outside noises from bothering me. Think I'll keep them in, to keep the spiders out :p

[@smasher8877]

Now to check the ear muffs for a spider every time you go to wear them😈

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

I once had to fight a wasp to keep it out of my ear.

[@anti_sse]

How you can sleep with them 😥 it hurts

[@c0n574nz0]

What kind of headphones do you use?

[@kingzach74]

There's a difference between headphones and earbuds. You probably mean earbuds that go in your ears.

[@eximus6187]

The kid and the snail turned out oddly wholesome at the end lmao

[@amcalycat93]

I'd love to see you do another react video to Dr. House, specially s1e13, Cursed. There's a scene where the doctors argue whether to trache or intubate and I'd love your analysis

[@CatVetNele]

Demodex is something we often see in cats and dogs, causing mostly hairloss as they populate in hairfollicules. They can mimic a lot of other skin problems too though, making diagnosis quite difficult sometimes.

[@KxNOxUTA]

I'm shocked about the turtle in a vagina, cause that doesn't "just happen" and as a turtle owner I'm absolutely disgusted over such animal cruelty. Now something that DID indeed happen involuntarily, was a gynaecologist finding a cockroach in a vagina. Mama Dr. Jones reviewed that case with us :'D I was totally expecting to see that case in here

[@tele-gram_OfficialDoctor_mike]

ιиϐοϰ мє οи τєℓєgяαм ωιτн τнє иαмє αϐονє.

[@renaemorgan-short8626]

The fact that the woman in question was practically begging not to release the story makes me think she's not as innocent as she sounds. No kink shaming, but I have a problem when you bring animals into it.

[@persephonehades7547]

@@renaemorgan-short8626 Eh people who are sexual assault victims also exhibit similar behaviors. It's just as plausible either way.

[@eklectiktoni]

Could also be a failed attempt at smuggling protected animal species. There have been cases of people found with endangered animals in their underwear as they tried to smuggle them from one country to another.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

This sounds like she was a victim to me.

[@ConnorFlashwing]

Oh my god, the mention of the Candiru fish just jogged some old memories. I remember being in school and somebody had found the stories about it and how it has spines that make it impossible to pull out without damage. Younger me swore never to pee in any river or ocean 😂

[@isacarral2736]

I think they are sweet water only, you should be good to go in the sea 😂

[@diegoeliasindriago7991]

​@@isacarral2736 im willing to bet neither of you live in the amazon so yall be fine

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Jeremy Wade ("River Monsters") made a specific episode where he traveled the Amazon for varieties of catfish (among others) and visited BOTH the doctor and the victim of the candiru "attack"... He even brought the guy to the archive and let him see (for the first time since, apparently) the fish that had "attacked" him... While supposedly "reputable" sources might be scarce, there's enough paper trail and so forth to track the guy down and find the fish AND the doctor. That's pretty legitimate in my book, AND the episode is certainly worth watching if you can find it. ;o)

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

Yup. Never.

[@iagreewithyou3478]

​@@chuharry5360Here there's rumor of leeches in a woman's vagina. Apparently, she swam in leech infested waters and some crawled up there and laid eggs. Or maybe it's the tiny ones that swam up and grew.

[@aradhyaagrawal323]

please make a review video for dr. romantic season 1 k-drama. It's one of the medical drama which i liked the most but i wanted to know that how much do you think that it is medically accurate.

[@sophialunt5705]

Dr Mike, please make a video about Botox and Fillers. I recently started but it’s tough to find a lot of reliable info about the risks and benefits.

[@stratttt6725]

Hey Doctor Mike, I have a video recommendation. What if you gather many doctors from different medical fields to basically describe what they do to help students getting into medical school make a decision on which speciality they can pick?

[@danakchampion]

Yes that video also sounds like it would be helpful for patients! I'm a professional patient (disability due to chronic illnesses, so managing that has become my full time job). I had very little preparation to enter the medical world, and always enjoy learning anything about how it works. I've found the more I understand about my doctor's perspective the easier it becomes to communicate effectively.

[@sarabertiotti3856]

The case with the botfly larvae growing under the woman's skin is actually pretty common around Brazil... some people actually put pieces of bacon or other types of meat on top of the skin to lure the larvae out

[@CamillaZahn]

Really?? 😮 I’m from Brazil, never heard of that!

[@sarabertiotti3856]

@CamillaZahn Yeah. At least, it's pretty common in the region I'm from. Here we call the fly "Mosca varejeira" and the larvae "berne"

[@carolfontenla]

​@@sarabertiotti3856 Tô chocada que varejeira e berne não são coisas universais hahaha achei que tinha no mundo todo.

[@gee2494]

A bug once crawled in my ear while I was sleeping, it woke me up in the middle of the night and the sound of it fluttering and crawling sent me on a screaming and crying fit. My dad drowned it with eardrops and the next morning I saw an ENT specialist that removed it and flushed my ear... This happened in January of this year and I still sleep with earplugs to this day 😅

[@fandm_fun504]

Coincidentally just yesterday saw a short from a KZbinr who also had a botfly larvae in his head and removed it with the same method. Also found out that botflies actually lay their eggs on mosquitoes who then transfer it to humans 😊

[@Bantereh]

The first story about the brain worm only happened this year! This was in my city and was covered about a month ago

[@1gorSouz4]

I don't get it... that was an earth worm? How did it manage to enter a human body?

[@Bantereh]

@@1gorSouz4 it was a type of round worm, definitely not an earth worm! Apparently she ate some veggies she picked herself that had been infected with the feces of a python that was carrying the worms eggs, she likely had worms in her lungs and other organs before it spread to the brain!!

[@khepur]

@@1gorSouz4not an earth worm, but a roundworm. It’s a parasite that infects a lot of different species of animals. I believe they discovered that the woman was infected when she foraged plants that had the roundworm eggs on it and because she didn’t properly clean the plants, she ended up ingesting the eggs, and one made its way into her brain. It’s a wild story!

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

@@1gorSouz4 round worm. Not earth worm.

[@__taestea]

@@redelfshotthefood8213 yea but still how did it get into the brain?? Makes no sense

[@Im_gonnakms]

I like how the boy kept the snail that caused his knee pain

[@Jibblejobblejoober]

A car says "vroom" A horse says "neigh" The thumbnail says "I need therapy"

[@FenrizNNN]

1:44 Sus

[@KiranMore4]

Without even watching the video ur content is amazing 😻

[@ericap6718]

It gives me the willies, thinking of bugs making a home in my body😳🤪 but this sure was interesting! Thanks Dr. Mike!...never a boring video!!😅😊❤

[@THAT1ZELDAFAN]

As an Australian with Arachnophobia, I can say the spiders here can kill you...and the snakes, and the Roos, the Drop Bears, the Magpies, the Platypus, the people, basically everything in Australia

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

Drop bears aren’t real. 😉

[@African.empress]

Magpies kill humans?

[@ClaireDCoaching]

9:24… I live in Australia, and while the spider bites may not be “deadly”, you do run the risk of necrosis and losing limbs. Just a PSA for anyone wanting to travel to Oz!

[@DezzMonster]

Hey Dr. Mike , great video!! I always loved watching monster inside me and this totally brought me back to that!!! I would love to pick your brain on my diagnosis I got last year (Anti NMDA receptor encephalitis) my story is crazy and I’d love to share it to spread awareness!!

[@guguilviz]

As a Doctor in Brazil, I lost the count of how many Myiasis I have removed in my life, I once had this 93 y.o. Patient that came to the ER with a very bad lesion in his leg that got infected, necrotic and while he walked, the myiasis felt all over the place… I stopped to count around 50, there were to many to remove… we started oral and I.v meds and the surgical team removed in surgery the rest a few days later while removing the necrosis.

[@yippeee8404]

"The leach went a step further" is one hell of a sentence

[@tele-gram_OfficialDoctor_mike]

ιиϐοϰ мє οи τєℓєgяαм ωιτн τнє иαмє αϐονє..

[@loupeterzens-re8bh]

Im pretty sure that the brown recluse spider is venomous not poisonous. I’ll give a quick lesson right here; venom is: it bites you, you die. And poison is: you bite it, you die. Hope this helps!

[@Darth_Lunas]

Love these "Story time, with Dr. Mike," videos!!

[@user-ku8tp8fh2i]

❤Thank you to the doctor and team for passing on knowledge and self-protection to us with intention💐🎀😊

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

The snail one is pretty damn awesome

[@Bonys03]

the candiru fish that go inside people is real, im from brazil and they do recomend that you don't urinate on amazon rivers, this fish is also called "peixe-vampiro" which translates to vampire-fish, despite urine its also attracted to blood, usually this fish go to other fishes gills to parasite them. If this fish does go inside you, normally you will need to remove it cirurgically because its head is like an anchor and it sticks to your skin, you can't pull it out

[@larimatolaganon4946]

The brown recluse is not poisonous. It is, however, Venomous. She is lucky it didn't bite her.

[@DrOrion]

Demodex are not spiders. They are "related" to them but they are not the same. Like a mite is not a spider. :) Thanks for the video.

[@laregimbal]

I'm glad I watched this in the morning and not right before bed. OMG the nightmares! 😵

[@ricocobasilik1654]

Can i just i have learned so much from drmikei even had fears of these things

[@the_amazon]

Great video, Dr. Mike! It would be so cool to have this be a monthly segment in which you would pick a topic and do a fact/fiction review. Loved this! 👍✨

[@ceruelion815]

Dr. Mike: "Don't put reptiles in your vagina!" Meanwhile, Mama Dr. Jones, 8000 miles away: " I felt a disturbance... as if somebody was talking about foreign vaginal objects without me..."

[@nooknerdz]

8:03 "poisonous" spider?? Doc... (venomous would be the correct terminology)

[@soupricemf1260]

Why not poisonous?

[@theparkourlady894]

Lol loved how u guys contrasted one imperial measurement with another instead of using metric and imperial 😂

[@unknownatlantis]

Recently I’ve been not doing the best mentally and I’ve been watching Mike a lot and his videos help me feel better :) he’s just such a comforting guy and Bear is really adorable too 🫶 Also Mike brown recluses and venomous not poisonous! venom needs to be injected while poison needs to be ingested, inhaled, or absorbed in through your skin :)

[@boogsie87]

Good morning Dr. Mike! Good to see you! ❤

[@OveToranger]

The gerbil rocket - ARMAGEDDON 🤣 ah yes, the old internet classic

[@imortaldraco2002]

I felt lightheaded with the tapeworm story

[@HayleyAnimates]

This is insanely terrifying that animals could live inside you. I knew about the worms that can go into your body. Especially the kind of paresites that can live in your eye and that can live anywhere else in your body. Love your videos Doctor Mike! You've Inspired me so much. I subbed btw.

[@koihoshi]

Thanks Doctor Mike. I no longer feel alone in the universe, my spider buddies are here for me.

[@Cloudy_vibes1]

Hello! You’re really smart! These are great facts and videos!😊

[@ZAB_Nailz]

7:38 I hate you Dr. Mike. Why would you tell me this 😭

[@GabrielleTheGreat0718]

help now I feel like taking a shower 😭

[@OwenSmith-wp2yh]

I’m I’m my bed at 10

[@birendrasinhamahapatra1945]

Thank you ! Doctor Mike for unlocking various types of fear in me !

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I swear i heard about this case of a guy who somehow had a barnacle attach to him and it intertwined into his bodies natural tissue. So the only option was to cut away the areas where the roots of the barnacle were.. *also those parasites that infect people's feet in Africa freak me out... they have to pull them out like strings.. it seems like such a crappy situation..

[@viniaraujo3943]

ok, not the better video to watch while lunching😵‍💫 although nice vid Dr Mike!

[@twisterman9949]

Brown Recluse spider is venomous, not poisonous (there is a very important difference).

[@thawabb]

Love these vids Doctor Mike ❤❤

[@Gravewhisper]

I once had a wasp crawl into my mouth and sting me inside the cheek while I was sleeping. Luckily I'm not allergic but I still looked like I had my wisdom teeth removed for days. I know wasps are endangered, but I will never stop hating them.

[@kim-de-la-kim]

It is bees that are endangered isn't it? Wasps are assholes, bees are good.

[@Jay...edits.]

My brother has the same thing happen actually

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

@@kim-de-la-kim bees are a type of wasp.

[@ashtonmalla3645]

@@redelfshotthefood8213the good type

[@Yesnt0073]

My stomach hurts watching this. Thank you for unlocking a new fear for me

[@MuskanSingh-kw7ux15]

Once a cockroach entered my ears. It was during my sleep, but I realized something was in my ears and panicked a lot. We tried our best to remove the cockroach by putting water or oil in my ears. The cockroach didn't come out but rather died, probably because of suffocation. The next day we went to the doctor to get it removed. For days I slept with cotton plugs in my ears and a scarf wrapped around them.

[@besknighter]

I once had an ant living inside my ear for a few days. I don't know if it was a Pharaoh or Ghost Ant or any other similar ant, but I do remember very clearly hearing it walking around and do whatever it was doing every night. It was nightmare inducing. I couldn't sleep. The anxiety of going deaf and the lack of sleep was making me go insane. Three day later, I felt it exiting my ear. As soon as that happened, my reflex was to slap it away to as far as I could. I never felt so much pain and relief at the same time. That night I slept as a baby, with cottons too hahaha It took me a few days to go back to sleeping normally.

[@chasedenes]

In the case of the brown recluse, there have been cases where bites cause permanent scarring so unlike many spiders one should be worried about them. Also venomous (toxin via injection with fangs) not poisonous (toxin via consumption or touch).

[@godrickstockwell1505]

Recent evidence seems to suggest that the big fear with the recluse, necrosis, isn't inherent in the venom and is most likely caused by the bite getting infected. Not every bite has that kind of nasty spreading tissue death that you think of when you hear brown recluse.

[@theparkourlady894]

I have been hearing stories about the barbed fish swimming up urine streams in thr amazon since the 1990s (ie, old enough to hear stuff like that). I thought it was common knowledge this could happen and never questioned it. Kinda like don't swim in a river in the amazon - u might get eaten by paranahs. 😅

[@mohammedisaam3512]

Man!! The first story gave me brain chills 😰

[@ArsalanAFG-fo1yx]

Thanks to you, as someone with anxiety, I have booked all medical tests to see if there is an animal living in some part of my body. I have even booked a test to check if I have a turtle in my vagina and I don't even have a vagina, but still I need to check.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

Oh yes you do. All embryos start out female. Your vagina is inside. Not generally accessible. The male organ grows out of the base female organ.

[@lesliegaskill650]

😂😂😂😂

[@sindred3530]

Brown Recluse is venemous, not poisonous. Two different ways of being toxic. Venemous means you can eat/inhale/touch them, but they can inject toxins if they penetrate your skin with something sharp, while poisonous inject toxins when you eat/inhale/touch them.

[@shannonweaver2169]

This! It bites you and you die, venomous. You bit it and you die, poisonous.

[@Tw1nk1e9]

9:14 so i don’t become spiderman?😢😢

[@Cernunnas]

Amazing video!! At 2:21 it's funny how Mike says 708 inch or 59 foot... I had to look it up in metres, lol (it's like 18m)

[@user-hl5rp9rv3l]

Thank you for making me cautious, scared and curious.

[@aswinkumara1625]

Hey Mike!! 7:19 You just reminded the worst nightmare for people with Arachnophobia......

[@Pickle-fd3cw]

FR

[@kellykellyKelly_]

Thank you. I will never fall asleep again 😂

[@user-xe7wv2gf7y]

Omg Dr. Mike!!! Im Paul Franklin, ake snail boy in 4th grade. i watch you all the time! thanks for covering my story, so cool!!

[@JediSimpson]

7:09 - If he was older, he probably would’ve named it Gary, because of SpongeBob.